Saturday, April 14, 2012

This quilt was pieced by Julie Blazek. The pattern is from Crabapple Hill. She does incredible embroidery and I loved this quilt as soon as I saw it. It's so pretty and all that white space....a perfect spot for feathers!

Here's a couple pictures of it while it was still on my table. I knew I wanted to do these curly feathers. These were done freehand and I filled in the outer area with echo quilting up to the scallop edge (drawn in).

Notice that I quilted right over the embroidery. It is not much stitching and it keeps the border nice and flat.

A few more pictures of the embroidery and blocks follow. I did not go thru the embroidery in the blocks because I wanted them to come forward. The same idea for the 9-patch blocks - simple arcs were stitched in the background fabric, allowing the color fabrics to come forward.